Window-frame.



110,763,234. PATENTED JUNE 21, 1904. H. T. WHITENAGK.

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No. 763,234. Patented June 21, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC HENRY T. WVHITENACK, VVITT, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO ROBERT P. BARNARD, OF NOKOMIS, ILLINOIS, AND HUGH WHITE- NACK AND BERTHA B. KESSINGER, OF WITT, ILLINOIS.

WINDOW-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,234, dated June 21, 1904.

I Application filed October '7, 1902. Serial No. 126,365. (No model.)

T all whom it y con/067"! 3 is a horizontal section looking down on the 4 Be it known that I, HENRY T. W'HITENAoK, sill.

a citizen of the United States, residing at Witt, Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 inin the county of Montgomery and State of dicates the stool; 7 the subsill; 8, the main Illinois, have invented certain new and useful sill; 9, the sides; 10, the inside casing; 11, the

Improvements in Window-Frames; and I do outside casing, and 12 the lower sash. The hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, main sill is rabbeted at 8 for the clapboard and exact description of the invention, such below, and the sides have the usual inside, as will enable others skilled in the art to which outside, and parting beads, indicated at 9.

1 it appertains to make and use the same, ref- Often the stool and subsill are made of two erence being had to the accompanying drawpieces and have a joint at 6; but in my in- 5 ings, and to the figures of reference marked vention they are made of one piece, as clearly thereon,which formapart of this specification. shown in Fig. 2. Hence rain or snow driving This invention relates particularly to the in under the lower sash cannot leak through 5 manner of making the bottom piece or pieces to the inside, but must flow down the sill to of a window-frame; and the object thereof is the outside. The main sill extends in under to form a weatherproof frame to avoid leaks the subsill, as shown, against a rabbet 6 under the window, which has heretofore been forming an outwardly-presented shoulder on a noticeable and troublesome defect in winthe under side of the stool, making a wide lap 20 (low-frame construction. In some frames the and tight joint with the subsill and stool.

bottom of the frame has been formed with It will be found that a window-frame contwo pieces, the subsill and the stool or stoolstructed in the manner above described will cap for the inside ledge having a narrow inexclude wind and storm and is an improvewardly-extending lap-joint just within'where ment over the old construction.

2 5 the lower sash strikes the subsill. A fault of What I claim as new, and desire to secure this construction is that inasmuch as the sash by Letters Patent,is 5 seldom fits perfectly against the sill or be- In a window-frame, the combination with cause a small obstruction will prevent it resta main sill, or a stool and subsill formed in ing close rain or snow will drive in under the one piece and fixed. thereon, the subsill hav- 3 sash and through the joint to the inside and ing a rabbet in the under side forming an outleak down the inside of the wall, particularly wardly-presented shoulder against which the 7 after the wood shrinks or after the stool or main sill fits, and a rabbet in the upper side sill warps, as it is apt to do. My invention to receive the sash. remedies this by making the sill and stool of In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in 3 5 one piece without the joint mentioned. presence of two witnesses.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is HENRY T. WHITENAOK. an elevation of the lower portion of the frame Witnesses: as seen from the outside with the sash partly AUREoLIoUs LA DAssoR,

raised. Fig. 2 is a vertical section, and Fig. ERNEST BEST. 

